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judgment, when the irrevocable verdict shall be 

 pronounced against them by God." 

 Josephus informs us thai the Pharisees were, 



-as an entire religious order, believers in future 

 punishment. "They say that all souls are im- 

 mortal : but that the souls of good men are only 

 removed into other bodies. — but that the souls of 

 bad men are subject to eternal punishment." 



" They also believe that souls have an immortal 

 vigor in them, and that under the earth there 

 will be rewards or punishments, according as 

 they have lived virtuously or viciously in this 

 life ; and the latter are to be detained in an ever- 

 lasting prison." (Wars II. ch. 8, 14). 



In Josephus' discourse to the Greeks concern- 

 ing Hades, he gives an account of the Jewish 

 belief concerning future punishment. He uses 

 such expressions as "a lake of unquenchable 

 fire" and "everlasting punishment." He states 

 that Minos and Rhadamanthus will not be the 

 Judges at the last day. but that the One whom 

 God hath appointed "hath prepared a just sen- 

 tence for every one, according to his works : at 

 whose judgment seat where all men, and angels, 

 •and daemons shall stand, they will send forth 

 one voice and say. Just is thy judgment; the 

 rejoinder to which will bring a just sentence upon 

 both parties, by giving justly to those that have 

 done well an everlasting fruition, but allotting 



